What are you listening to and WHY might anyone be interested? (Vol.VIII)
Posted by: Richard Dane on 29 December 2011
With 2012 almost upon us, it's time to start a fresh thread. I've gone back to an earlier thread title because often the "why" is the most interesting part of the post.
Anyway, links:
Volume VII: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...6878604287751/page/1
Volume VI: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878604097229
Volume V: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878605140495
Volume IV: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878605795042
Volume III: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878607309474
Volume II: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878606245043
Volume I: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878607464290
Forget Lana Del whatever...
If it's the voice, listen to this...
If it's the hype, listen to True Romance Soundtrack.
Exquisite
Was listening to this:
(takes trombone to a whole 'nother level) and while looking for an image to post, found an homage to the artist who did the cover art, Christopher Whorf. He also did this! Can you say 1976?
From yesterday afternoon..
Prompted by the PT question in my thread and awaiting the arrival of Anesthetize!!! 
So far today..
Not sure about Thrak but JJC rocks along nicely.
King Creosote - bombshell (on Grooveshark)
Me to, pleasantly surprised. I wonder how long it will last. Gary
2xLP - 2009 : )
SACD
2 x LP Music On Vinyl (2010 re-issue)
Vinyl
CD - Excellent recording - the 'Plus' version has the edge on SQ and more tracks too.
Wide range of music styles covered on Album.
DB.
I think Kitty Empire's review in the Observer got the closest to understanding this album.
I'm amazed that I haven't read a single review that has actually identified that the record is an homage to Lolita. The videos for Videogames and Blue Jeans hint at the warm tinged nostalgia of he narratorial vision, th song Carmen is a clear nod to the extracted song of the same name at the end of Chapter 13 just after Humbert's first epiphanic orgasm with Lo on his lap, 'This is what makes us girls' and the many lyrical mentions of teenage infatuation, heart shaped sunglasses (ok, so this is Kubrickian an not just Nabokovian) and there s actually a track called Lolita.
This is what anyone who criticises her as 'dead behind the eyes' just doesn't get. It is all pure artifice, completely postmodern, a complete construct and this is why people who are part of the backlash are wrong to critique this artist as a facade. It is an image in the same way that the last Kanye album was, or the way The Weeknd is.
Remember, Baudrillard tells us that the map precedes the territory; image precedes reality.
Cheers,
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Me to, pleasantly surprised. I wonder how long it will last. Gary
2lp set, vintage VM